Posted on 04/30/2015 9:03:07 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
The teenage boy publicly shamed when his mom smacked him around at the Baltimore riots this week said he knows she "really cares about me." A video shows Michael Singleton being dragged from the protests and whacked by his mother, Toya Graham, after she saw him on television and recognized a key piece of clothing.
"What caught my eye was his sweatpants," she told ABC News. "Even though he had on all black, I knew those sweatpants he had on, they had a stripe on the side of it and then his eye contact met mine. And I knew that was my son." Though he was visibly annoyed and tried brushing off his mom in the video that has now gone viral, the 16-year-old recognizes that she was just looking out for him.
"I’m like, 'Oh man! What is my momma doing down here?'" Michael told ABC News, laughing while thinking back to the moment his mom nabbed him Monday afternoon. "All my friends know my mother. Every time they see her they’re like, 'Toya coming.' Oh, yeah she’s coming. Everybody better get straight," he said.
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A mom slapping a marauding 16-year-old for engaging in rioting and an NFL running back repeatedly schwacking and leaving stripes on a 4-year-old with a long stick are kinda different, no?
I am surprised CPS hasn’t knocked on her front door yet.
I'd be stunned if we DIDN'T see something like that on the Demented Untermensch site.
I agree .. I don’t recall my dad ever laying a hand on me .. all he had to do was look at me and I knew I was in trouble.
On the other hand, I was the first one he would ask to join him at his favorite baseball games (he was a fan of a minor league team in San Jose, CA). He loved it because he had played minor league baseball when he was a young single guy.
Those moments told me how much he cared about me.
He died when I was 16 .. and I still miss him.
Rush predicted this would happen a few days ago.
Nothing takes the place of a father.
Yup. Kudos to mom for acting as she did - but a boy needs a male role model, and if there's none at home he'll settle for the streets.
Yep
If she gets interviewed on Fox News, she may get the knock...
Perhaps we FRp’s should send her (the Mom) a Mother’s day card in care of the STUPID mayor...Can you imagine the STUPID mayor getting thousands of cards addressed to the Loving Mom!
You know what, I’ll be the first.
God Bless Mom. Live Long and Prosper.
That may be true.
I love her and I think the son is grateful too, at least he should be.
got the address?
great idea - I’m in
Damn. Do they all think that way over there?
Agreed, God Bless Mothers everywhere!
Thanks. Lol and may the force be with you. : )
You’ll never find better, more involved parents than faux internet parents.
Had she and son been white and it been a gay rally instead of a riot she’d be in the penitentiary now.
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